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.jpg "Tomb of Omar Khayyam, the Persian Poet, at Naishapur by William Crimea Simpson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-219667).jpg "The Gate of Huldah the Prophetess, Jerusalem, 1871 by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "Gale off the Port of Balaklava, November 14th 1854, plate from")
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.jpg "Pheel Khana, or Elephants Quarters, Holcars Camp, from")
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.jpg "The Lighthouse at Cape Chersonese, plate from")
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.jpg "One of the Wards of the Hospital at Scutari, from")
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.jpg "Chefoo, the Principal Chinese Port on the Yellow Sea by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "Head of the Harbour, Sebastopol, plate from")
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.jpg "The Sacred Rock, Jerusalem by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "Funeral of the Late German Emperor at Berlin, Procession in the Unter den Linden by William Crimea Simpson")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-202921).jpg "Rock-Cut Tunnel, Pools of Solomon, Near Bethlehem, 1872 by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "A Turkoman Raid, Carrying Off a Prize by William Crimea Simpson")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-232035).jpg "Cashmere Shawls: Weaving, 1863 by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "The Akal Bunga at the Golden Temple at Amritsar by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "Second Charge of the Guards when they retook the Two Gun Battery at the Battle of Inkerman, engraved by Edmond Morin from The Seat of War in the East - First Series, published by Colnaghi by William Crimea Simpson")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-165134).jpg "Subterranean Passage to Fountain of the Virgin, Jerusalem by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "The Dewali or Festival of Lamps, from")
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.jpg "Interior of the Mamelon Vert (plate from")
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.jpg "Excavated church in the caverns at Inkermann, looking west by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "Indigo Factory - Bengal, from")
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.jpg "The Maristan or Mosque-Hospital of Kalaun, Cairo by William Crimea Simpson")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-260711).jpg "Wilson")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-43591).jpg "Elephant Battery, 1864 by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "A Quiet Night in the Batteries, plate from")
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_on_the_ward_from_-_(MeisterDrucke-361784).jpg "Hospital at Scutari, detail of Florence Nightingale on the ward, from The Seat of War in the East, pub. by Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co., 1856 (detail) by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "Street in Bombay, from")
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.jpg "Lucknow, from")
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.jpg "Indian Woman Floating Lamps on the Ganges, from")
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.jpg "Balaklava, Looking Towards the Sea, plate from")
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.jpg "A Prisoner of War by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "Hindu Fakir, from")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-551533).jpg "Puja at Chini Bashahr, Himalayas by William Crimea Simpson")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-82457).jpg "Portrait of Mary Seacole by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "The Chitpore Road, from")
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.jpg "The Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854. The Charge of the Light Brigade by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "The Trouble in Crete, Suda Bay, on the North-East of the Island by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "Battle of the Tchernaya, August 16th 1855, plate from")
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.jpg "Sikh Priest Reading the Grunth, Umritsar, from")
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.jpg "Storm in the Balaklava Bay on 14th of November 1854 by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "Boats on the Ganges, from")
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.jpg "Bahr el Khabeer or the Great Sea Rock-cut cistern under the site of Solomon")
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.jpg "Circassian of the Soubash by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "The Fire Temple at Baku, on the Caspian by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "Indore, from")
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.jpg "The lighthouse at Cape Chersonese, looking south by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "Dowlutabad, in the Territory of the Nizam of Hyderabad, India by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "Jain Priests, from")
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.jpg "Queen Victoria visiting HMS Resolute, 16th December, 1856, published 1859 by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "A Buddhist Monk, from")
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.jpg "The Temple of Poseidon, Sunium, 1877 by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "The Rock-Cut Statues of Bamian, Central Asia, the Largest Statue by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "The Afghan War, writing out the Treaty of Peace at Gundamuk by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "The Ravee River, from")
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.jpg "Oodypure, the Jugmunder Palace, from")
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.jpg "Pilgrims at Gangootree, from")
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.jpg "One of the Wards of the Hospital at Scutari, 1856 by William Crimea Simpson")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-147590).jpg "Fallen Voussoir Robinson")
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.jpg "The Fort of Allahabad, and Junction of the Jumna with the Ganges by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "Delhi - Jeweller, from")
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.jpg "Mussulman Pilgrims from Persia on the Way to the Holy City of Meshed by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "Charge of the Heavy Brigade at the Battle of Balaklava, 1854 by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "Ambair, from")
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.jpg "Ghelenjik, 6th October 1855 by William Crimea Simpson")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-177022).jpg "Crypt of the Church of St. Anne, Jerusalem, 1872 by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "Scindia")
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.jpg "The Massacres at Constantinople, View of the City and the Golden Horn by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "Gallipoli, illustration from")
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.jpg "The Burial of Lord Raglan Near Sevastopol, Crimea, Russia by William Crimea Simpson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-432499).jpg "The River Chenab, Punjab, 1865 by William Crimea Simpson")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-164169).jpg "The Wellesley Monument, Bombay, 1863 by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "A Christmas Dinner on the Heights before Sebastopol, engraved by J.A. Vinter by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "The Lighthouse at Cape Chersonese, Looking South by William Crimea Simpson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-316984).jpg "Rock-Cut Cistern under Robinson")
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.jpg "The hospital and cemetery at Soutari, with Constantinople in the distance by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "The Trouble in Crete, Retimo, one of the Chief Towns of the Island, and the Scene of many Murders by Turkish Soldiers by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "Interior of the Redan, Plate from")
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.jpg "Capture of the Malakoff Redoubt by the French, Siege of Sevastopol, 8 September 1855 by William Crimea Simpson")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-558655).jpg "The Sakrah or Sacred Rock, Jerusalem by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "Windsor Castle Kitchen at Christmas by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "The North Side of the Harbour of Sebastopol by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "Sevastopol from the 26 gun battery by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "Lord Raglan")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-275228).jpg "Foundation of South East Corner of Haram Wall, Jerusalem by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "A Ward in the Hospital at Scutari, engraved by E. Walker, 1856 by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "Battle of the Tchernaya, 16 August 1855 by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "Fallen Voussoirs of Robinson")
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.jpg "The Afghan War, Sketches at a Review at Gundamuck by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "The fall of Sevastopol and the retreat of the Russians, 8 September 1855 by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "Consecration of the Restored Schlosskirche at Wittenberg, by the German Emperor by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "The Gale off the Port of Balaklava, 14 November 1854 by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "Ditch of the Malakoff, Battery Gervais, and rear of Redan by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "A Hot Night in the Batteries, plate from")
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.jpg "The Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava, 25 October 1854 by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "Russian Military Positions in Asia, Krasnovodsk, on the Caspian Sea by William Crimea Simpson")
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.jpg "The Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaklava, 1854 by William Crimea Simpson")
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Art can change history by confronting the public with reality. One example is the work of William Simpson. Together with the Times correspondent William Howard Russel and Thomas Chenery, William Simpson's lithographs from the Crimean War (1853- 56) contributed to a re-evaluation of the modern war in the European public. As allies of the decaying Ottoman Empire, the British Empire and France tried to stop Russia's continental expansion and became embroiled in one of the bloodiest colonial wars of the 19th century. Since the victory over Napoleon, British troops were no longer involved in such a war and considerable weaknesses were evident in the organisation of supplies and the provision of troops with the help of modern logistical instruments. During the first battles the British expeditionary corps won victories against the tsarist army, but proved unable to treat the wounded in the material battles adequately. Many soldiers died during the transport to the central military hospital, sometimes lasting weeks.
William Simpson accompanied and documented the failure and mismanagement of the British military leadership and caused a turn in public opinion with the comments of the Times journalists. But Simpson's career was anything but predetermined. Born in Glasgow, he did not start school until the age of 11. With discipline and a sense of mission, he continued to work through evening studies and became an apprentice in a lithography company. The rise of this art form was closely linked to the development of the mass media. Newspapers, magazines and journals demanded images to illustrate the written word. In 1854 Simpson was commissioned to make lithographs of the Crimean War according to reports. He convinced his clients that only local reporting would have a mass impact. When he arrived in Crimea, he was overwhelmed by the scenes and the suffering of the ordinary soldiers, who were victims of violence, but above all of the failure and incompetence of their own commanders. The face of the war and the violence had not changed, but what made the difference were the technical possibilities of telegraphy and the mass press, which allowed the public to have a new experience of the war. The images of wounded left alone, of emergency transports, dirt, illness and death, complemented the reports of people like Florence Nightingale, who became an icon of humanity in the Crimean War.
With the reputation he earned as an illustrator of the Crimean War, Simpson received commissions from magazines to report on similar events and to create a portfolio after his return. The next target was again a colonial conflict in the British Empire. In India, British colonial troops crushed the so-called Sepoy uprising with the most brutal force. In 1868 he was part of the Ethiopia expedition, a punitive mission against African tribal chiefs who had killed English missionaries. After further work as a war correspondent in the Franco-Prussian War of 1866 and the second Afghan War, Simpson retired from public life.
Art can change history by confronting the public with reality. One example is the work of William Simpson. Together with the Times correspondent William Howard Russel and Thomas Chenery, William Simpson's lithographs from the Crimean War (1853- 56) contributed to a re-evaluation of the modern war in the European public. As allies of the decaying Ottoman Empire, the British Empire and France tried to stop Russia's continental expansion and became embroiled in one of the bloodiest colonial wars of the 19th century. Since the victory over Napoleon, British troops were no longer involved in such a war and considerable weaknesses were evident in the organisation of supplies and the provision of troops with the help of modern logistical instruments. During the first battles the British expeditionary corps won victories against the tsarist army, but proved unable to treat the wounded in the material battles adequately. Many soldiers died during the transport to the central military hospital, sometimes lasting weeks.
William Simpson accompanied and documented the failure and mismanagement of the British military leadership and caused a turn in public opinion with the comments of the Times journalists. But Simpson's career was anything but predetermined. Born in Glasgow, he did not start school until the age of 11. With discipline and a sense of mission, he continued to work through evening studies and became an apprentice in a lithography company. The rise of this art form was closely linked to the development of the mass media. Newspapers, magazines and journals demanded images to illustrate the written word. In 1854 Simpson was commissioned to make lithographs of the Crimean War according to reports. He convinced his clients that only local reporting would have a mass impact. When he arrived in Crimea, he was overwhelmed by the scenes and the suffering of the ordinary soldiers, who were victims of violence, but above all of the failure and incompetence of their own commanders. The face of the war and the violence had not changed, but what made the difference were the technical possibilities of telegraphy and the mass press, which allowed the public to have a new experience of the war. The images of wounded left alone, of emergency transports, dirt, illness and death, complemented the reports of people like Florence Nightingale, who became an icon of humanity in the Crimean War.
With the reputation he earned as an illustrator of the Crimean War, Simpson received commissions from magazines to report on similar events and to create a portfolio after his return. The next target was again a colonial conflict in the British Empire. In India, British colonial troops crushed the so-called Sepoy uprising with the most brutal force. In 1868 he was part of the Ethiopia expedition, a punitive mission against African tribal chiefs who had killed English missionaries. After further work as a war correspondent in the Franco-Prussian War of 1866 and the second Afghan War, Simpson retired from public life.
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.jpg "The Petroleum Oil Wells at Baku, on the Caspian by William Crimea Simpson")
.jpg "The Golden Temple, Benares by William Crimea Simpson")
.jpg "The Emperor of Austria Ascending the Great Pyramid, Egypt by William Crimea Simpson")
.jpg "The Cavalry Affair of the Heights of Bulganak: the First Gun, plate from")